This is what he doesn't seem to grasp.
We're not hating on Trigg because we're losing games.
We're hating on Trigg because his actions make it more likely that we will lose games.
He seems to think there is no connection between his performance and what we see on-field.
The mentality from Trigg and our board is toxic and is killing the club
Trig's either heavily in denial or extremely deluded as 10 years of apathy and poor management has lead to the mess that we've turned into. Take Fremantle for instance, they'e paying their coach about 3 times more than we're paying Sanderson, yet they will still make about 10x more profit than we will at the end of the year. I am not sure how Trigg is failing to grasp the reality that under his watch we've gone from the most powerful club in the AFL to one now that cannot compete with our rivals off the field.
I used to wonder why the club stopped trying to chase the best coaches in the land, but the reality that I've come to accept is that we simply do not have the money to land them anymore. This is obviously why the club never bothered to chase Ross Lyon and went for the cheap option of Sanderson instead. Internally the club appears to have resigned itself to the reality that the only option the club has financially is to take the cheap option and just hope that it works out.
To be perfectly honest I think we can also forget the pipe dream of leading a high profiled Senior assistant next year as this club does not have the 700,000-1,000,000 to throw at Thompson or someone of that ilk. We're now a minnow off the field and due to this we have the same problems that clubs like the Bulldogs and St Kilda have in that they simply don't have the warchest to compete for high profiled coaches with the big clubs.